The best of both worlds

Cookie cake is incredibly underrated. And I think it’s entirely unfortunate because it’s basically the best of both worlds. The other night, on a whim, we baked a cookie cake to go along with our Thai food and Cold Stone cupcakes, and it was probably the best thing we ate. Granted, after a couple of hours of doing nothing but eating and watching chick flicks on television (thank you, ABC Family), appreciating the cookie cake was probably the furthest thing from our minds (much more immediate was the idea that we should probably never eat again). Still, though, they’re pretty fantastic. And it’s not the cookie cake’s fault that we have no self control. It just happens to be an enabler – a delicious one, at that. And for every once in a while, that’s just fine. I’d definitely choose it over the ice cream cupcakes we got from Cold Stone (which were not as exciting as I’d hoped), and probably over many other desserts. Except for bread pudding, but that’s an entirely different situation.

The wonderful cookie cake we made the other night.

All you need is love

Today I saw a heart running down the street. Not even kidding - there was a man running down the street wearing a huge felt cut-out of a heart. At first I thought it was just the Valentine's Day spirit hitting him and him choosing to react in whatever way he felt best - for some, it's chocolate and champagne, for others, running down the street dressed as a heart. I was wrong. There was, it appears, some kind of Valentine's Day race/run. Maybe for a cause, maybe for love - but it was definitely fun for me. Walking down Beacon Street, I was passed by many a pink-clothed runner - one wearing lingerie over her running gear, some in pink gaudy sparkles, Thing 1 and Thing 2, and some people just generally decked out for V-day.

Wearing his heart on his sleeve, err, body...

I wonder what they were running for, though. As we passed the Holiday Inn, there was some table handing out drinks to the runners as they ran by, but there was no mention of a cause. Maybe their cause was love? I haven't heard of a run for love, yet. I think that would be original. There's a run/walk/jog/scoot for every other cause, which is great, but honestly kind of overwhelming. Any weekend, every weekend you can walk for a cause. They've sort of lost their novelty. Not like people shouldn’t be out actively pursuing cures for every disease, I think it’s great, but I feel like walks are kind of overdone now. They’ve saturated the market, in a sense. It’s much more powerful, more effective, I would think, to have a few large-scale walks every year, the way Race for the Cure was. Less is more, my friends. That being said, don’t stop looking for cures, don’t stop with the social action – just be creative about it. I kind of enjoy coming across costumed runners on the street – it’s like Comm. Ave running guy, only better!